svmreads's Reviews (412)

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Summer Book

Tove Jansson

DID NOT FINISH: 26%

Objectively this book is well-written; however, I didn’t mesh with it. It was super detail-oriented and yet the action and the characters felt so far removed from me that I didn’t really care what was going on.
emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes

Quiet, moving, and thought-provoking. This book really took me by surprise with how much I enjoyed it.
dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
dark funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced
hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated